Section: US & Canada
GOP Impeachment Counsel Won’t Admit Biden Was Top 2020 Contender When Trump Targeted Him
The staff lawyer for the Republicans in the impeachment inquiry was not willing to acknowledge that Joe Biden was a leading 2020 presidential contender at the time President Donald Trump pressed Ukraine for dirt on Biden. Trump’s effort to weaken Biden’s candidacy by demanding the investigations from the Ukrainians is at the center of...
Biden Blames Staffers for Not Warning Him About Hunter’s Board Position
Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden on Friday blamed his staff for not warning him about the potential conflict of interest stemming from his son Hunter’s position on the board of a Ukrainian natural gas company. “Nobody warned me about a potential conflict of interest,” Biden said in an interview with NPR released Monday. Recent...
With the Children on the Ukraine War’s Front Lines Praying for Peace
KRASNOGORIVKA, Ukraine–The front line is only one kilometer away from the children’s soccer club where five- and six-year-old boys were exercising on Monday morning. And the children’s music school is even closer, 800 meters, which is to say half a mile. All the windows are covered, since shock waves from explosions have broken them...
GOP counsel says both Ukraine, Russia interfered in 2016 U.S. elections
GOP counsel Stephen Castor on Monday said both Russia and Ukraine interfered in the 2016 U.S. elections in his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee.Castor’s remarks were notable given… …read more Source:: The...
Putin, Zelenskiy Meet in Bid to Bring Peace to Eastern Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, are meeting for the first time in Paris for long-awaited talks on resolving the military conflict in eastern Ukraine that has left more than 13,000 people dead since 2014.After a series of bilateral meetings at the Elysee Palace on December 9, Putin and Zelenskiy...
Trump And Pompeo Will Meet With Russia’s Foreign Minister
President Donald Trump will hold a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday, the Kremlin said on Monday. Trump and Lavrov will meet in Washington, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told CNN. TPM could not independently confirm the meeting with the White House. Additionally, the State Department announced...
If the Witnesses Could Exonerate Trump, Why Aren’t They Testifying?
Speaking with George Stephanopoulos on ABC this weekend, Representative Matt Gaetz—one of President Donald Trump’s most relentlessly enthusiastic congressional supporters—had an unexpected suggestion for how the president should proceed in the impeachment inquiry. Mick Mulvaney, the director of the Office of Management and Budget and acting...
Russia President Putin and Ukraine President Zelensky Sit Down for Peace Talks for the First Time
PARIS (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky are meeting for the first time at a summit in Paris to find a way to end the five years of fighting in eastern Ukraine. Both of the leaders are sitting down in the French capital on Monday along with the leaders of France and Germany. The talks are focusing...
Trump a ‘clear and present danger,’ says Democratic investigator in impeachment hearing
President Trump’s efforts to get Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden was meant to interfere in next year’s election and “is a clear and present danger” to fair elections and U.S. national security, a De… …read more Source:: The...
How Clinton and Obama Disarmed and Abandoned Ukraine
If Ukraine had kept and modernized the nuclear weapons it had inherited from the old Soviet Union, it is entirely possible that Russia would never have invaded in 2014. Those weapons could have been transformed into a deterrent to Russian aggression. But President Bill Clinton signed an agreement to send the weapons to Russia. These facts have...
